So the composting worms he uses live in the top layer, as you feed a new layer the worms will stay in the top 6 or so inches . After a while of feeding the bottom layer is moslty their castings ( poop ). Which is rich in biology and nutrition among other benifits . The bars on the bottom allow the harvesting of the castings (poop ), a fork like tool is raked between the bars scraping the bottom layer of the rich plant amendment and bringing down the level so that more food can be fed and the continous part be used in the name . All of this is a real amatuer and low level explanation and more detailed info is out there .
I’m jealous at how accurate and fine your craftsmanship is and I also admire it because I aspire to be a craftsman to a higher degree of excellence no matter how long it takes. If you don’t advise me on everything you know I will sue. This is my grumpy way of saying, please teach me, don’t tell anybody I told you that PS I have had a couple of drinks.
People complain about not explaining the build, but once I saw it, I already knew that it's a great design. From what I saw: 1. Bottom is made out of dense mesh or breathing material that improves the quality of the soil. It also allows excess water to drip down to containers, and this water is full of nutrients, good bacterias etc, so you can use it as a bio fertilizer which you dilute with your regular water. Great stuff! In my country, it's called Biohumus :) 2. The mesh on the top protects it from the rats, mouse, etc, probably. It also allows it to breathe. The only downside I can think about is that the worms are gonna die there probably, when a cold winter comes, because it's not deep enough for them to dig down to hide in the lower layer of unfrozen soil. On the other hand, rebuilding the colony of worms is not that hard because it only takes a month or two, and maybe he can move it to a garage during winter.
An issue is also the harvesting of the compost. Since it isn't multi-level, you will be hurting them possibly, and disturbing them, and have to sift through them in order to harvest.
Dude I literally put extra soil in a cardboard box!! Pulled the box up and huge worms 🪱 rolled out!! The bottom of the box basically disintegrated into the ground!!
@@louisethomas8074but if you water it down it’s fine to use on plants, it’s suggested to use it on non edible plants such as house plants and aloe vera
I appreciate the brief overview. It's enough info for anyone with experience building things and filters out anyone who probably shouldn't be using power tools.
The worms and microbes generate a biofilm that loosely holds the material together. And the worms don't leave because they don't like light and generally know to stay where the food is.
Yes worms will stay on top. You should start collecting three months after initiating. That way the thickness will be enough to have a lover part with worm droppings, a middle part transforming and the upper part with food and the majority of worms. You will still find some worm now and then falling but they will be so many in the box you can disregards the loss
I built something similar. The wood will decompose and doesn't hold moisture the worms need very well. A plastic tote with the bottom cut out and small holds drilled in the lid works best. You can also make the grate at the bottom out of weed whip string. Cheaper and doesn't rust.
Thats nice but I'm going to make mine with hard wood and varnish it. The dimensions are going to be 600x600x1200mm which is basically 3x PVC sheets that I will use to line the box with to prolong the life of the flow through worm habitat, I can buy these from the local hardware shop. My lid will also have a breathable heavy duty shade cloth on top to block out most of the light and underneath between the legs I will install a stainless-steel sheet on angle in order to catch and drain any falling worm castings or leachate into one container off to one side for ease of use.
I made one following your video! How long until castings come out the bottom? And how do you take it off without tearing the newspaper I put on the bottom? Thanks!!
Ok, so I need a handheld circular saw, a bunch of lumber, metal rods? A borehole thing, a 90 degree ruler, misc. Other tools, screen, 5 buckets, At least a beginners certificate of some kind in construction, a small dog, some screws some nails...total cost 500- 5,000 dollars. Worth it!
You stapled screen below the pipes? How do you harvest the castings without tearing out the screen? Is the screen on a frame with hinges? That you can lower or somehow remove? The build went fast on the vid. Did you skip filming that step?
Cardboard on top of pipes is going to decompose in about three months. You need initially not to lose the bedding wen starting the compost. After few months the soil on top will be compact enough not to go through the holes on the bottom. You will use a rack to make the dropping fall from the bottom when the cardboard will be decomposed
@samueleclemente1923 Good luck with that. I've found the cardboard over the pipes or rods is enough to hold it in place until it's ready to harvest since the castings compress down into a mass. You are going to have to bang the underside of that screen like mad to get the castings to fall through the little squares. I suspect you'll have to cut the screen out as your rake tines will hang-up constantly in the squares as you try to scrape.
@@flatsville9343 i cut the cardboard before starting to pour dirt. It’s full of mushrooms on the bottom growing and decomposing. The spacing of my pipes is not that thin as in the video so i might have the opposite problem of struggling to make it drop. But i will update when i’ll try the first time
A little too fast for me to see exactly how it all works, specially on that bottom w/the bars... What happens when that paper (I assume it is paper) decomposes?
I built one myself, i am not sure how long it’s going to last if you don’t cover the inside walls with plastic film! And the entire structure with paint or impregnation to make it more resistant to water. In the inside you will have all bunch of living organism and fungus developing attacking the wood walls too. I suggest to make it more durable since the whole project can be pretty expensive depending in which country you live in. In Italy to find wood boards, tubes and color is not cheap. So you decide…
Anche io uso un sistema CFT autocostruito molto simile al tuo purtroppo ho avuto in due occasioni problemi di surriscaldamento ma credo dovute alle piccole dimensioni del sistema e a cibo non perfettamente compostato perfettamente comportato
Spiegami. Anche io ne jo fatto uno e lo tengo dentro un edificio ma è aperto e devo dire che in estate fa parecchio caldo. Internamente sembra lavorare bene ma ho paura anche io che possa soffrire il caldo. È tappato sopra con in coperchio che blocca la luce. Magari sentiamoci privatamente
Now that’s how u do it. Concise, followable, not wasting my or anyone’s time. Perfect score dude. For those reasons and more u have inspired me sir, for now on I will seek constructional education through “shorts”. Can not thank you enough. Oh, and the worm farm is brilliant as well
Whay i used in mine initially were pvc pipes the one you can buy in electric shops but they were not resistant enough so i inserted metal bars inside the once you use in masonry to built concrete. Cheap and sturdy
Not to lose the initial bedding soil in the first months to give time to the sistem to compact and produce the worm droppings on the bottom. Cardboard will decompose in time and you can start racking the bottom in about 2/3 months.
rotting wood sounds hella good in my compost brother. Hail yeah gobles. You said you were gonna show us how to build it and then built it with no instructions so that's a lie.
Uh. Wouldn't the worms eat through the cardboard and just fall through? The spacing on the pipes at fhe bottom is too big of a gap and they will all escape after the cardboard has been eaten through enough. I'd put that mesh screen on the bottom as well so the castings can drip through. I hope you didn't lose all your worms!!! Oh man. They will also slowly eat the wood too, but probably Years until the wood is eaten enough to escape from.
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Thank you! But I have no idea how that bin works.
So the composting worms he uses live in the top layer, as you feed a new layer the worms will stay in the top 6 or so inches . After a while of feeding the bottom layer is moslty their castings ( poop ). Which is rich in biology and nutrition among other benifits . The bars on the bottom allow the harvesting of the castings (poop ), a fork like tool is raked between the bars scraping the bottom layer of the rich plant amendment and bringing down the level so that more food can be fed and the continous part be used in the name . All of this is a real amatuer and low level explanation and more detailed info is out there .
Would like to know if you have a longer video on how to do this? It looks interesting but it also looks absolutely huge.
I’m jealous at how accurate and fine your craftsmanship is and I also admire it because I aspire to be a craftsman to a higher degree of excellence no matter how long it takes. If you don’t advise me on everything you know I will sue. This is my grumpy way of saying, please teach me, don’t tell anybody I told you that PS I have had a couple of drinks.
People complain about not explaining the build, but once I saw it, I already knew that it's a great design. From what I saw:
1. Bottom is made out of dense mesh or breathing material that improves the quality of the soil. It also allows excess water to drip down to containers, and this water is full of nutrients, good bacterias etc, so you can use it as a bio fertilizer which you dilute with your regular water. Great stuff! In my country, it's called Biohumus :)
2. The mesh on the top protects it from the rats, mouse, etc, probably. It also allows it to breathe.
The only downside I can think about is that the worms are gonna die there probably, when a cold winter comes, because it's not deep enough for them to dig down to hide in the lower layer of unfrozen soil. On the other hand, rebuilding the colony of worms is not that hard because it only takes a month or two, and maybe he can move it to a garage during winter.
Thanks for the breakdown... I wonder what kind of mess you use though because I used a screen and my red wigglers were able to go through the screen
An issue is also the harvesting of the compost. Since it isn't multi-level, you will be hurting them possibly, and disturbing them, and have to sift through them in order to harvest.
Dude I literally put extra soil in a cardboard box!! Pulled the box up and huge worms 🪱 rolled out!! The bottom of the box basically disintegrated into the ground!!
I love the idea. I'm going to integrate a compost tea catch basen. Thanks for sharing
If any liquid (leachate) comes out the bottom it means you are over feeding or put too much water in
@@louisethomas8074but if you water it down it’s fine to use on plants, it’s suggested to use it on non edible plants such as house plants and aloe vera
I do like this, how would you harvest the castings?
nice all i have to do is guess what the design is from random camera angles on a 59 second video, thanks lol
ua-cam.com/video/t43mVF0TeJ8/v-deo.htmlsi=VSWuyPdC0A6xpaau
Be creative. Choose your own size and style.
Hahaha yep
I appreciate the brief overview. It's enough info for anyone with experience building things and filters out anyone who probably shouldn't be using power tools.
The original designer of this bin has videos for the design on UA-cam. He's an old man that made it. Not this young guy
Once the paper breaks down, what is keeping the worms and soil in the bin?
that weight and compaction might be enough since the poles are there in due time
The worms and microbes generate a biofilm that loosely holds the material together. And the worms don't leave because they don't like light and generally know to stay where the food is.
Yes worms will stay on top. You should start collecting three months after initiating. That way the thickness will be enough to have a lover part with worm droppings, a middle part transforming and the upper part with food and the majority of worms. You will still find some worm now and then falling but they will be so many in the box you can disregards the loss
I built something similar. The wood will decompose and doesn't hold moisture the worms need very well.
A plastic tote with the bottom cut out and small holds drilled in the lid works best. You can also make the grate at the bottom out of weed whip string. Cheaper and doesn't rust.
Thats nice but I'm going to make mine with hard wood and varnish it. The dimensions are going to be 600x600x1200mm which is basically 3x PVC sheets that I will use to line the box with to prolong the life of the flow through worm habitat, I can buy these from the local hardware shop. My lid will also have a breathable heavy duty shade cloth on top to block out most of the light and underneath between the legs I will install a stainless-steel sheet on angle in order to catch and drain any falling worm castings or leachate into one container off to one side for ease of use.
I wondered how to make one of these. Very helpful, thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
What’s the rest of the worm growing process, in your system, please?
Wont it get flooded out by the rain?
How does it function in the winter months in cold climates?
I need the plans to build this worm box
Did you use EMT conduit on the bottom? That will rust out in no time.
Would love more info
What size is your bin? Looks like 2.5x10? Very nice job!
Nice rig , im going to being vernaculture to my farm this summer, how did your system produce ?
I was expecting an update on how it was going, not an edited version of the first video.
That pup was adorable
How do you get castins from bottom with the mesh in the way?
I thought you were going to show how you did it.
I've just looked on your channel and can't find a full video?
ua-cam.com/video/t43mVF0TeJ8/v-deo.html
Can you send me a video or link on how it work fully . Have a couple acres.
He just showed you everything you need to know right here in the video 👍🏽
Have a video of the full proccess?
Please add directions and measurements...
I made one following your video! How long until castings come out the bottom? And how do you take it off without tearing the newspaper I put on the bottom? Thanks!!
If you have 4 kilos of worms then it takes 2 months to decompost.
Any any any updates?
Expensive solution.
How do you keep it warm in the winter?
Ok, so I need a handheld circular saw, a bunch of lumber, metal rods? A borehole thing, a 90 degree ruler, misc. Other tools, screen, 5 buckets, At least a beginners certificate of some kind in construction, a small dog, some screws some nails...total cost 500- 5,000 dollars. Worth it!
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I love the small dog requirement.❤😂
Add upbeat music to the list ! 😂
Agreed. This is annoying. Also if lechate is dripping out of the bin it means you’re over feeding and need to put in more carbon. It’s NOT tea
You stapled screen below the pipes? How do you harvest the castings without tearing out the screen? Is the screen on a frame with hinges? That you can lower or somehow remove?
The build went fast on the vid. Did you skip filming that step?
Cardboard on top of pipes is going to decompose in about three months. You need initially not to lose the bedding wen starting the compost. After few months the soil on top will be compact enough not to go through the holes on the bottom. You will use a rack to make the dropping fall from the bottom when the cardboard will be decomposed
@samueleclemente1923 Good luck with that. I've found the cardboard over the pipes or rods is enough to hold it in place until it's ready to harvest since the castings compress down into a mass. You are going to have to bang the underside of that screen like mad to get the castings to fall through the little squares. I suspect you'll have to cut the screen out as your rake tines will hang-up constantly in the squares as you try to scrape.
@@flatsville9343 i cut the cardboard before starting to pour dirt. It’s full of mushrooms on the bottom growing and decomposing. The spacing of my pipes is not that thin as in the video so i might have the opposite problem of struggling to make it drop. But i will update when i’ll try the first time
The screen is the lid on top with hinges, not under the pipes.
You didnt explain anything. What you built and what's it's purpose and how you ues it. Waste of time.
ua-cam.com/video/t43mVF0TeJ8/v-deo.htmlsi=1s2jQ97CUsXq-KCC
A little too fast for me to see exactly how it all works, specially on that bottom w/the bars... What happens when that paper (I assume it is paper) decomposes?
Check out our full length video 👍. We just rake from the bottom
Thanks, I've found the full video on your channel.
What is the pipes for?
I built one myself, i am not sure how long it’s going to last if you don’t cover the inside walls with plastic film! And the entire structure with paint or impregnation to make it more resistant to water. In the inside you will have all bunch of living organism and fungus developing attacking the wood walls too. I suggest to make it more durable since the whole project can be pretty expensive depending in which country you live in. In Italy to find wood boards, tubes and color is not cheap. So you decide…
Anche io uso un sistema CFT autocostruito molto simile al tuo purtroppo ho avuto in due occasioni problemi di surriscaldamento ma credo dovute alle piccole dimensioni del sistema e a cibo non perfettamente compostato perfettamente comportato
Spiegami. Anche io ne jo fatto uno e lo tengo dentro un edificio ma è aperto e devo dire che in estate fa parecchio caldo. Internamente sembra lavorare bene ma ho paura anche io che possa soffrire il caldo. È tappato sopra con in coperchio che blocca la luce. Magari sentiamoci privatamente
your whole vermicompost will be weighing down on just a few screws. i woula have added much more support to the structure
Can you leave it outdoors in the winter (in northeast US)?
Not realy cause in nature they wil go very deep in the ground so they dont freeze
Now that’s how u do it. Concise, followable, not wasting my or anyone’s time. Perfect score dude. For those reasons and more u have inspired me sir, for now on I will seek constructional education through “shorts”. Can not thank you enough. Oh, and the worm farm is brilliant as well
Thanks
Treated pine 🤔
Could you explain the bars, please?
Whay i used in mine initially were pvc pipes the one you can buy in electric shops but they were not resistant enough so i inserted metal bars inside the once you use in masonry to built concrete. Cheap and sturdy
That's a another way of saying he's got bars 💀
I want one!
PPS how dare you genius right in front of my face.
I know this guys favorite plant!😂 Great work!
What is the purpose of the screening?
Not to lose the initial bedding soil in the first months to give time to the sistem to compact and produce the worm droppings on the bottom. Cardboard will decompose in time and you can start racking the bottom in about 2/3 months.
rotting wood sounds hella good in my compost brother. Hail yeah gobles. You said you were gonna show us how to build it and then built it with no instructions so that's a lie.
Only works if you’re south of the mason dixon
Are you adding worms?
I’ll have an update video out soon where I add my worms 🪱
If I put worms in this in my Caribbean climate they would be crispy in a few hours
I would like to build down my new house
Nice
Well, at least the pup was enjoyable to see
All this and so few words.... Care to elaborate??
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Name of your background music?
By I have a wrom in my pants you can thank me later
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I have a lot of worms
Worms will eat the wood
Actually they will be busy eating the food.
Uh. Wouldn't the worms eat through the cardboard and just fall through? The spacing on the pipes at fhe bottom is too big of a gap and they will all escape after the cardboard has been eaten through enough. I'd put that mesh screen on the bottom as well so the castings can drip through. I hope you didn't lose all your worms!!! Oh man.
They will also slowly eat the wood too, but probably Years until the wood is eaten enough to escape from.
Wait, WHAT?
Insufficient information. Do a proper, longer version.
I have one on my channel 🤦🏻♂️
@@GoshenFarmandGardens : Found it. Thank you.
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I have everything but time
First like
and the worms fall in the bucket down?
Not sure how you explained anything,
Мынау ерикен екен бизге мундаи болмаит
hilarious
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Romans 6:23)
Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. (Matthew 11:28-30)
I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. (Luke 13:5)
For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. (Romans 10:13)
A system that attracts pests...and unable to control a worm culture critters...
He didn’t update because this was a waste of time and money
Man you're talented, but you didn't "teach" or even say what materials you used. Pretty quick and dirty
Watch the full video on my channel 😊
You told us NOTHING!!!!!!
They're going to eat your worm bin. I mean your wood will be eaten
u wasting my time. diz. bb.
Thanks man! Ima gonna grow the best weed in the world 😁
Nice
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